He was also charged with crimes in Gloucester County both well before and well after the Philadelphia murders.

His arrest came after DNA taken back in 1989 matched a man who’d since served time in Georgia, police said, and that man happened to be Churchill. Police found that he had a New Jersey address, and they took another DNA swab, they said.

After the new swab was taken, he was arrested in the 1400 block of Fairmount Avenue.

According to court records, Churchill has been charged nine times with offenses in Gloucester County alone.

Those records list his address was, at least at some point, a home in the 200 block of Huff Avenue in Paulsboro. A person who answered the telephone at that address Thursday afternoon said Churchill did not live there.

In Gloucester County, Churchill pleaded guilty to a May 1980 prohibited weapons charge and a July 1982 burglary. The remaining charges — which came between March 2000 and December 2011 — were all downgraded or remanded to municipal courts. They included theft and drug accusations and another prohibited weapons charge.

But it was the burglary conviction in Georgia that brought the Philadelphia killings out of the cold case files.

Ellis’ body was found March 17, 1989 on the rear floor of an Oldsmobile. The cause of death was ruled ligature strangulation and beating.

On April 23 that year, Hanible’s decomposed body was found in a bar that had burned and had been vacant for months. She, too, had been strangled, authorities said.